Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse: A History and Pictorial Souvenir Archaeological Completion Reports architecture

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Edge of Empire provides both an overview and an intensely detailed look at Michilimackinac at a very specific period of history

Edited and Translated by Jose Antonio Brandao

During the first half-century of its occupation the island fort protected and controlled the upper Great Lakes fur trade and served as an administrative center for maintaining alliances with the region's Native Americans

The island first emerged after the last ice age

Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse: A History and Pictorial Souvenir Archaeological Completion Reports architectureFifty page, full color publication engages the reader through vivid photographs and colorful text, taking them on a journey through the construction and life of the lighthouse built near the shores of two Great Lakes at Old Mackinac Point, located in Mackinaw City, Michigan. The story begins in 1671 with a brief history of Old Mackinac Point when the Straits of Mackinac was the focus of European activity, and then journeys through the evolution of